Research of the Karaganda Museum

The Karaganda Local History Museum expedition explored two settlements of the Bronze Age in the Nura district of the Karaganda region.

The Enthusiast I settlement is located 2 km south-southwest of the village of Akhmetaul on the right bank of the Nura River. The excavation (I 35 sq. m.) revealed two dilapidated dwellings, the remains of four premises and part of the economic complex.

Dwelling 1 (the area of ​​the preserved part is 140 sq. m), oriented along the west-east line, with an extension measuring 4.5х3 m (the depth of the pit is 0.4-0.5 m), in the eastern part it had a stone hearth, the collapse of a furnace, utility and post pits and a large (3 m in diameter and 1.2 m deep) pit in the center. Dwelling 2 (preserved on an area of ​​90 sq. m) also oriented along the west-east axis and deepened by 0.4-0.7 m, two fire pits, utility and post pits, and a pit 3 m in diameter and 1 m deep were cleared in the floor in the center. The pits of the dwellings were connected by ditch-shaped depressions (width - 0.4-1.5 m, depth - 0.15-0.20 m) with a structure located between them measuring 4-3 m and a depth of 0.25 m. Outside the dwellings, remains of utility structures were found with pits and ditches.

Bronze knives and needles represent the excavation material, bone arrowheads, ceramic and bone whorls, stone hoes, pestles, a grain grater and a whetstone, fragments of jars and pot-shaped vessels ornamented with hatched triangles, zigzags, meanders, flutes and a rocking chair and finds analogies in the sites of the developed period Bronze Ages of Kazakhstan and the Urals.

Enthusiast II settlement is located 0.5 km from this monument downstream of the Nura River. An excavation of 328 sq. m, the remains of a two-chamber dwelling with an area of ​​140 sq. m with five fireplaces on the floor, utility and post pits. Among the finds, there are ceramics, a bronze awl, bone piercings, stone pestles and polishes dating back to the final Bronze Age.